Faustine Steinmetz

ARMED with only 15 minutes sleep (though she felt convinced it was in fact an hour she'd had), <a href="http://www.vogue.co.uk/brand/faustine-steinmetz">Faustine Steinmetz, LVMH Prize finalist and Central Saint Martins alumni, brought a surreal start to our Saturday morning: what had happened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts? Models were half in, half out of the walls, hands with pierced and painted nails dangled bags out, a pair of legs hung here and a face appeared there.

"I don't want to do catwalk, it's not about the outfit, it becomes about the glamour and the girl," explained the designer of her installation choice. This way, the focus remained on her designs, the pieces themselves and what she's doing. Once again it was a shrewd move from Steinmetz who, in her short two-year career, has quickly established herself as being a name to note - because she creates something interesting and presents it just as innovatively.

Steinmetz specialises in deconstruction - primarily of denim - and to the nth degree, but today she had opened up her design horizons. There were sweatshirts that trailed from the front into cascading strands to enable a wider price point and she'd partnered with Cotton USA too, so that her fabrics could now be produced in an industrial way. "I'm entering a new sphere for my label," she explained. There were still the handcraft pieces, of which there will always be, but this way, she said, enabled her to loosen the label up and push herself. On her part, it's good thinking.